Guardian of the Earth. Chapter one.

It was a dark, regal building. She could just make out the tall shapes of the beings across the hall. 'We will execute justice' A dark voice boomed through the void. 'I call upon the Last Option, as described in the laws of the Eternals. This voice came from a familiar face. He was always there, in her dreams, flying together through the stars. But now he was captured, alone, afraid. A lonely man in the darkness. There was a slightly confused mumbling on the other side. The dark voice returned, with something, which could resemble fear, in it. 'Do you have that right?'. 'I am a Time Lord, if you don't trust me, if you want to take it to a higher authority, there isn't one! It stops with me!' He was angry, afraid and angry, this was the most disturbing dream she had in ages. She wanted to stop dreaming. This wasn't going to end well.

Silence.

'Very well' She heard a heavy button being pushed, and some sort of machine started to power up.

'The Trial of Earth is paused, for an undefined amount of time'

A blue glow and and icy feeling ended her dream brutally.

It was not the first time, she had this dream more and more. It first came to her a month ago.

10:30. The green, digital numbers gave her almost a heart attack. Damnit! She hurried downstairs, several minutes later, ate breakfast and raced towards the video store.

Hiya J!

Doug was the owner of the shop for a very long time now. Other people might say he needed a real job, but the ones who knew him well realised that this was the place he truly fitted in. Not that he disagreed with that, he was happy there. Since Jane dropped out of university and came back living in her old village again, he immediatly offered her the job. And, seeing as any other work would be hard to find, she said yes. So, this was her life. Wake up, Video store, eat stuff, go to bed. Unlike Doug, she wanted to get away, to discover.

'I told you, my name is Jane!' 'What's that?' She noticed a new packet of paper sheets draped across the desk, marked 'top secret' as always. Doug was a hacker and a conspiracy theorist. The perfect combination to find all sorts of things, the moonlanding a hoax, watergate, Roswell, he knew it all.

'A new discovery Jane!, well actually discoveries. It's about that house in London. Wester Drumlins, abandoned for years. And tell you what, … It wants to stay abandoned. Tons of people have been there, but they all disappeared, hundreds of cars were found there, some of them even had the engine running. Oh and your favorite garden ornament was found there too. Some time after, it disappeared as always'

'The blue box?'

'Yeah, there was also some bit of easter eggs of that man in your dreams, the doctor'

'Wow!, have you found it?'

'Wiped of the internet'

'mm. But that's from the american government' She pointed to a few papers, some of them prints from forums and some of them marked with the badge of the Central Intelligence Agency and the occasional 'TOP SECRET'.

'Oh yeah, that. That is something about someone who claims Roswell was in fact Voyager, which supposedly fell through time. Ridiculous, I meant to clean it up. Anyway, back to work, there's a new box full of dvd's waiting to be priced.

'Yes sir, she said jokingly'. This was her life, and she felt like it was never gonna change.

The day was at an end, they closed the shop, and he smiled at her, just like he always did when they parted ways. She knew he fancied her. She didn't give him anything. For some stupid reason she was still hanging on to the hope of that stranger returning. 'I need to ask him'. She thought. 'Maybe he knows something about that building. They talked about earth it must be on earth, and the box is never far away from the Doctor so….

'Hey!' Why was she doing this again? Giving him false hope by doing some research together wasn't how she planned her evening.

Doug was already half way across the street. 'Yes'?

'Um, I want to find uh…'

'Something from your dreams?'

She told him of her dreams, frequently. He was pretending to like it, hearing it all, she thought.

'Good guess.'

He was standing close to her now 'I can help you, since you told me of that dream, I have been looking, I think I am quite close with this.' He hander her a sheet of paper, containing a name, some facts, a bit of history and a map reference.

'oh… thanks!' This was unexpected, she didn't need to spend her evening with him after all, but just in case…'I really have to go now, for… stuff' And she turned homewards. 'Goodbye! And thanks!'

'Yeah… bye'.

End of chapter 1